Chapter 11- The Summit of Supreme Leader Snoke

Kylo Ren stood behind Rey in an elevator. The girl had tied hands and was trying to focus on what to say to the monster Snoke when she met him.

She was not blindfolded this time; this time she would really see him in person. Rey just hoped that Kylo was joking when he said that she would see a face that was so ugly it shouldn't exist.

But the only thing Rey could focus on was Ben Solo and what had happened in the Launch Bay.

Kylo had taken her lightsaber away from her when he came to retrieve her from the two Stormtroopers that had been guarding her on the main Star Destroyer. She girl saw past Kylo's scar and angry eyes when he had entered the room earlier, she knew that look of emotion and feeling, she saw it her own eyes.

"You don't have to do this, Ben" said Rey, breaking the silence. She walked over to Kylo. "You can come with me; we can end this."

"I was wrong Rey. I can't stop this, even together we can't stop it. I want to, but I can't… there are a lot of things I can't do." Kylo said after a long pause.

"But we can end this. I know your future, I saw it" spoke Rey, coming to face the man and going close. "When you held my hand-" Ren looked up "-I felt what you would become; Ben Solo, there is good in you, and its not even that buried."

"I'm not turning, in the end it will be you who turns. Ben Solo is dead, so is Han Solo, just like Leia Organa should be." Spoke Kylo.

"What?" said Rey. She hadn't heard anything about Leia.

"Her ship went down in flames; I saw it with my very eyes. But I do not feel that she has given into the end, just like you have not given into the darkness, and how I am not giving into the light."

For a second Rey had the craziest thought of reaching up and throwing her arms around Kylo, but that moment passed when the elevator doors slid open and she saw the very sight that Kylo had warned her of.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Do not let it show.

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"Rey, the scavenger girl" the Supreme Leader's voice boomed.

Kylo pushed Rey forward. His hand was not rough on her back as it should have been, instead he traced his thumb over her clothing and almost sent a shimmer of the force into Rey's body. The girl felt it as she went on alone up the roll of carpet.

"Oh no" she thought as her eyes fell on Snoke. His face was pure grey, and half of it looked like it was burnt right through his skull. "No even a mother could love that face." Rey thought.

"Mocking me, again are we?" Snoke said. "Yes, Rey, I can see your mind. I am strong in the force, even stronger than the Jedi's that came before."

"You will never be as strong as Jedi heroes! They defend this galaxy even into death. A monster could never be that strong!" Rey responded.

Snoke cackled.

"My dear child" he said. "You know nothing of this world, I sense that you are lost, torn. You stand here before me, insulting me while wearing my clothes and filled up on my food and drink. I offer you training- you disrespect it, I even treat you like one of my own- again you cease to support what you were born to be. But… you are not alone in your anger and fear."

Snoke held out his hand and used the force to drop Rey to her knees and slide her around to face Kylo.

"Look at him, Kylo Ren, Master of the Knights of Ren."

Kylo looked up from where he knelt on the floor. Rey could not believe what she saw. Kylo's eyes were sad, suddenly it seemed like permanent tears were in his eyes but never falling. The man was terrified. The very sight of Kylo gazing up at her made her heart break.

"He is broken, I feel the conflict in him rise every second he sets his eyes upon you. He is torn between the darkness that he is loyal to and the girl that he has fallen in deeply love with."

"Ben" Rey breathed.

Love. It had finally been said, the one word that Kylo and Rey had been avoiding. It was hopeless now. The two had been drawn into love for one another.

"I have no love" spoke Ren.

And what came next neither Snoke nor Rey expected.

Kylo stood up, an unknown blaze in his eyes. He drew his lightsaber and plunged it straight into Snoke's chest. The grey monster fell to the floor and Ren pulled the unstable red sizzling of a sword back out again.

Rey stood with her mouth open. Had he just killed his own master?

Kylo turned to face Rey and she looked up at him. They could both sense Snoke's guards moving in on them with spears in their hands. They both knew what they wanted to say and do. But they could only think it.

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The throne room rattled with the noise of crackling lightsabres being shoved against dancing spears. There were ten guards in total, three of them were dead.

Rey swirled her sabre across Snoke's guard's bodies as quick as lightning, every once in a while, she would look over to see the sight of Kylo spinning his weapon around and sinking it across or into a body. She was perfectly aware that the man was watching her every move while he punched and sliced three of Snoke's men at the same time, occasionally applying the force to his technique.

Rey was not as trained as Kylo, but she knew that it must have taken a lot to get that strong with the force and a lightsaber.

There were two left now. Rey had just cut one down and it lay dead next to her, she never saw the penultimate one coming. The girl was stumbling up as she pulled her sabre from the guard she had just killed and was met with the view of another guard clad in their red uniform holding its spear by its side ready to slash Rey in one swing. Her eyes full of terror squeezed closed waiting for the impact of death to come upon her, but it never did. Instead, the same guard's body fell down beside her. Rey scrambled over and saw the familiar handle of Kylo Ren's lightsaber stuck into its back, she looked around. The last target had its spear pressed against Kylo's neck and was holding him so the man couldn't breathe. Rey raced over, her hands grasped both hers and his weapon as she ran, she was not going to make it. Without even thinking, she shot one hand out and the guard holding Kylo flew across the room and splattered across the window, blood forming around his body. Ren fell to his knees and Rey skidded beside him.

"Ben!" said Rey.

Kylo lifted his head and they both sat in silence breathing uncontrollably.

"You've learnt the force" said Kylo.

"Yes, but I still need a teacher. You asked me once before." She replied.

Kylo shook his head.

"No, not me" he said.

"I've see you fight, Ben, you could be an amazing-" Rey stopped. Kylo had turned his upwards to the throne where Snoke lay collapsed in half, grey pus spilling out of him. Kylo stood up and stepped closer, Rey followed and stood next to the man gazing at his face. He was devastated.

"What have I done" he whispered.

"Ben. I saw how he treated you, I saw your eyes. You are broken, you just need to come home" said Rey.

"I can't do that" said Kylo.

"Please, I know I've said it before, I know you think that you don't them, but they need you, and when I say they I mean me" Rey spoke, tears dribbled down her face. She could see Kylo was almost in the same state as her, but his tears did not fall, never did they seem to.

"I-"

A humongous bang came from outside in space, the Resistance had begun to fire again. Kylo turned to Rey. He pulled off his glove and from the inside stitching he pulled a golden object. Ren then took Rey's hand and dropped the object in. Rey looked down at it. There were two gold dices attached to the ends of a chain, the girl studied it for a second by Kylo closed her hands.

"Please go. I need to get out of here or I will not survive, and with Snoke gone there's no telling what will happen to you, Rey" the man said. "Please."

"I will see you again, I can't be avoided that easily" Rey managed as tears drenched her cheeks. "May the force be with you Ben Solo, and if you are to stay Kylo Ren for the moment, then may the force be with him too."

The girl ran from the room as the ceiling began to collapse in. Kylo watched her go before escaping his own way. They would meet again, alive.

"May the force be with you" Kylo whispered under his breath. "Don't change, I'm coming."